“New Jersey is such a great food state, generally,” says Mary Castiello, owner of Giorgio Pasticceria Italiana in Hoboken. “The Sopranos highlighted that for everybody else in the country.”

It’s been 20 years since HBO introduced us all to the Soprano family and the foods mob boss Tony Soprano and his family relished onscreen every Sunday night for six seasons.

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And, speaking of relish, grab a few relish and ketchup packets from a fast food joint before you begin to binge watch "The Sopranos'' in honor of its 20-year anniversary. You’re going to want them for the ""Pine Barrens'' episode in Season Three so you can "sympathy eat'' with Paulie and Christopher as they’re (spoiler alert) freezing and starving after getting lost somewhere off the Garden State Parkway. (If you’ve never watched "The Sopranos,'' here's your warning of more spoilers ahead.)

Take the cannoli

Leave the gun, take the cannoli, especially if it's from Jersey.(Photo: Getty Images/Hemera)

There is no doubt they'd rather be eating cannoli, a sweet something Chris once shot a disrespectful bakery employee in the foot for.

If you find yourself near Hoboken, get your cannoli from Giorgio.

“We pipe them – unless it’s a crazy day like Christmas Eve – as people order. It keeps the shell crunchier,” says Castiello. “We use a traditional Sicilian recipe with candied fruit, chocolate chips and cinnamon.”

With your dessert secured, grab a bottle of one of Tony and Carmella’s favorite wines, such as Ruffino Riserava Ducale Chianti Classico – a wine that shows up in many episodes.

If you want to keep it in Jersey, you can get a bottle of sangiovese from a local winery: Valenzano Winery in Shamong, Turdo Vineyard in Cape May, Hopewell Valley Vineyards in Pennington and Working Dog in Robbinsville all make wine with the Italian grape.

The wine will go well with most of the dishes on "The Sopranos'' typical menu.

'They were always eating something!'

“The Sopranos was the best,” says Angelo Lutz, chef-owner of Collingswood’s Kitchen Consigliere. “You can try to imitate it but there will never be nothing like it. So much revolved around food. No matter where they were they were always eating something.”

A lot of those somethings are on Lutz’s menu, and they would all be fitting for chowing down on while binge watching the HBO smash hit.

Lutz's restaurant has a mobster theme, starting with its name and a large mural depicting mobsters and gangsters, both real and Hollywood creations. Lutz, who served nine years in prison on racketeering charges, is up there himself at a table with Corleone, Soprano and Gotti.

One of the most memorable lines from the "Sopranos'' pilot comes from Tony’s son AJ. When he finds out his grandmother, who was bringing the ziti, isn’t coming to his birthday party, he complains, “So what, no f&*$! ziti, now?”

A bowl of baked ziti is served at The Kitchen Consigliere, a mob-themed Italian restaurant in Collingswood.(Photo: Chris LaChall/Staff Photographer )

That line makes baked ziti the perfect food to begin your binge-watching marathon.

You can order that from Kitchen Consigliere or make it yourself. The characters would likely have made it with DeCecco pasta, a brand that was featured during some cooking scenes, adding authenticity to the show.

“All Italians cook with it,” says Lutz referring to the DeCecco.

“We do an eggplant Parmesan that’s similar to what Carmela makes,” says Lutz.

His eggplant is also similar to the one that Bobby Bacala’s wife Karen made before she died.

“She used to put a layer of ricotta in hers,” he says. “That’s how I make mine.”

Lutz also recalls a scene in which Tony gets sick and blames it on Artie Bucco’s mussels from Nuovo Vesuvio, the “family restaurant” in the show.

Kitchen Consigliere has mussels on the menu, and don’t worry, they won’t make anyone ill. He recommends “mussels in red,” for binge watching.

“The TV show itself was epic.'' says Lutz. "It was a talking point, a water-cooler show. I remember if you missed an episode, you couldn’t wait to get home to your DVR. You kept up with the characters. You related to them,” says Lutz, whose locally famous catch phrase is "I'm a cook, not a crook!''

A plate of mussels in red sauce is on the menu in The Kitchen Consigliere restaurant in Collingswood.(Photo: Chris LaChall/Staff Photographer )

Where's the pork?

While catching up with Sil, Paulie and the gang, sandwiches should be on your snacking list, too. Tony’s favorite sandwich was "gabagool'' (capicola) and peppers. You’re going to want quality meat, so skip the deli counter at the grocery store and find an Italian butcher shop or specialty shop that sells authentic capicola, such as Bella Italia Pork Store, a family-owned Italian food market in Jackson.

Further up north, Esposito’s Meats and Deli, another family-owned operation in East Hanover, carries the ham. And, if you’re down south by Cape May, the close-to-a-century-old Gaiss’ Meat Market and Grill in Villas can sell you some "gabagool.''

Stayed up all night because you had to know what Tony would do next? If you’re binge watching in the morning, whip up some French toast. In Season Two, when Meadow and her friend Hunter make a complete mess of the kitchen while cooking French toast, they talk about how no one realizes they’re adults.

Yet they don’t clean up after cooking. You, however, will have to clean up your own mess.

Holsten's in Bloomfield is best known as the place Tony Soprano dined for the last time in the series' finale.(Photo: Tyson Trish/NorthJersey.com)

Want to keep it old school? Prepare your feast from the “Soprano’s Family Cookbook,” a real cookbook attributed to the fictional character Artie Bucco but written by some actual cookbook authors. There are recipes for Sunday Gravy that can top any pasta you choose; Rigot pie (ricotta pie); Braciole; and many more foods eaten by the show’s various characters over the six seasons.

If you didn’t plan your binge watching food ahead of time, there’s no need to panic. You can always call one of the Tony Sopranos Pizza chain restaurants and get a pizza or even baked ziti delivered to your living room.

Put a ring on it

Last, but certainly not least, have onion rings on hand when you’re watching the finale. In the final scene of the series, Tony “went ahead and ordered somethin’ for the table,” a basket of onion rings at the diner.

Whether he died at is table at Holsten's in Bloomfield or lived to kill another day, Tony Soprano's last on-screen supper was onion rings.(Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

As the family begins to eat them, and Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin' ” plays on the juke box, we see ... (We won’t spoil the ending for you if you’re a virgin "Sopranos" viewer.)

That final scene was filmed at Holsten’s Brookdale Confectionary in Bloomfield. You can sit in the booth that has a “reserved” sign on the table, a jukebox and a plaque that reads, “This booth is reserved for the Soprano family.”

And, yes, you can order onion rings. Just don't have your back to the door.